The economist Dean Baker has been vocal for years about the benefits of free trade on medicine. [0] (of many)
But while the powers-that-be are fine with free trade for cars, cheap clothing, electronics, etc. or exporting American manufacturing jobs overseas, it's a different tune all the sudden when you try to do the same thing to powerful industries, like doctors or lawyers.
Are you claiming that the American car lobby is not powerful? You might need a history refresher on how (for example) "voluntary export restraints" came to be a thing:
But while the powers-that-be are fine with free trade for cars, cheap clothing, electronics, etc. or exporting American manufacturing jobs overseas, it's a different tune all the sudden when you try to do the same thing to powerful industries, like doctors or lawyers.
[0]http://www.cato.org/publications/cato-online-forum/doctors-d...